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PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge
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- ashton314 2y agoI don’t have access to any Windows machines. Otherwise, I’d be tempted to turn this on and pump it full of Markov-chain generated slop. How big would the damage be if a few percent of their userbase did this?
- dole 2y agoI'd imagine mostly to the productivity of the sloppers. Considering this looks like a Windows Office-wide default opt-in, I feel you'd have difficulty hitting 1% userbase.
- trod1234 2y agoThis wouldn't have an impact. There would inevitably be a classifier that acts as a filter pre-training to identify slop and ignore it.
- dmonitor 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
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- yesfitz 2y agoMicrosoft refuted this claim: https://x.com/Microsoft365/status/1861160874993463648 https://x.com/Microsoft365/status/1861160874993463648 "In the M365 apps, we do not use customer data to train LLMs. This setting only enables features requiring internet access like co-authoring a document." -@Microsoft365
- dmonitor 2y agoThey wouldn't have to combat misinformation if they actually told users what the switches turned on/off instead of vague descriptions that could plausibly allow them to do whatever the hell they want.
- autoexec 2y agoYeah, MS collecting your personal data and using it for whatever they want sounds exactly like a "feature requiring internet access" to me.
- mysterydip 2y agoyour document has gained the following co-authors: - microsoft - our 856 trusted third parties
- sherburt3 2y agoFile>Options>Trust Centre (left panel)>Trust Centre Settings (button)>Privacy Options (left panel)>Privacy Settings (button)>uncheck "Turn on optional connected experiences" Wow
- derelicta 2y agoMicrosoft is a powerful company, they know themselves above the Law. So why would they stop?